Song Lian was so busy during this time that he didn't even have time to think about the city defense.

Of course, he didn't want to think about it, so he worked hard, because he was really pessimistic about the future of Haizhou.

Fools don't believe that four or five thousand strong people, plus a few hundred elite soldiers, can compete with tens of thousands of elite captives.

Fortunately, there are a lot of things for Song Lian to do, otherwise he himself doesn't know how he should spend these days.

Song Lian is in charge of civil affairs, and all he has to do is to do logistics for the soldiers in the city, and the core work is the food problem.

It is necessary to ensure the food supply in the city, even if the old and weak in the city eat less.

Therefore, at the beginning, the rations of each family were set very low, and the men in the city, Ding Qingzhuang, were rationed one catty of rice a day, and the old and weak were only half a catty.

In the absence of a supply of non-staple food, these rations cannot meet the needs of food and clothing, and people who do not have enough to eat will think of all kinds of ways and exploit all kinds of loopholes.

During this time, Song Lian has been fighting against this kind of loophole.

According to the rules set by Song Lian, each household went to buy grain once every three days, and the amount purchased was determined according to the population of each family.

However, various problems have arisen, such as false reporting of the number of people, and repeated purchases in violation of regulations.

On the first day, Song Lian found that the door of the grain store was crowded with customers who came to buy grain, and Haizhou was a wealthy city, and there were many grain stores, so it was impossible for this situation to occur in normal times.

Even if it is now set that each family can only buy three days of rations at a time, it is impossible to have customers all day long, Song Lian soon found that after some people bought it once, they threw down the grain, turned around and came to sell the grain again.

This situation almost made Song Lian want to close the grain store. Then they went door to door to distribute food, as much as each family should have.

As a result, Yang Chao stopped him, and doing so could indeed make everyone buy according to the quantity. But the amount of work to be paid is too great, 100,000 people in Haizhou. With 30,000 households, there is simply no way that there will be enough manpower to distribute food from house to house.

Yang Chao gave Song Lian an idea, that is, to issue vouchers, conduct door-to-door investigations, issue a sign to each family, record the population situation on the sign, and each family will buy it once every three days according to the brand, and the grain store will be responsible for registration. Prevent multiple purchases.

This solved the problem, but the wooden sign issued by the government soon appeared as an imitation of the fake brand, which made Song Lian furious, and he had launched a city-wide search for fake certificates, but unfortunately with little success.

When the work was in a mess, Yang Chao came to him again.

Song Lian didn't want to see Yang Chao very much, not to mention that he didn't have a good impression of Yang Chao in the first place, the key was that Yang Chao must have something to do when he came to him, and he really didn't want to hear about the accident.

But what surprised Song Lian this time was. What Yang Chao said was too simple.

"Salt?"

Is salt still a thing in Haizhou, there are a large number of salt merchants' shops and warehouses here all year round, and the stored salt is not ten thousand quintals, but also thousands of quintals. You can't finish eating.

"That's right, please ask Song Dianshi to prepare a hundred loads of salt for the city, I will ask for it immediately!"

Yang Chao said with certainty.

This little problem is not a problem, Song Lian immediately called a servant: "Go to Kang Mazi and ask for a hundred loads of salt!" ”

Kang Mazi is the shopkeeper of a salt shop.

The official immediately set off, and Yang Chao asked his officers to follow directly with Minzhuang.

Then I greeted Song Lian and asked about the situation in the city, the city was indeed very chaotic, and the wisdom of the people in the market to take advantage of loopholes brought Song Lian a lot of trouble at this time.

Yang Chao didn't have much to do about it. can only tell Song Lian to let the work of the grain store and the officials keep an eye on it. Those who have come to sell grain many times will be arrested immediately. At this time, a black market has formed in the city, and the food that these people buy must be making a fortune by reselling.

However, if the grain store and the official are in charge at the same time, there is also a relationship of buying and selling favors, and they will definitely turn a blind eye to their acquaintances, and may even participate in it to get a piece of the pie, which cannot be completely eliminated.

Yang Chao only hoped to suppress as much as possible, anyway, as long as it was guaranteed for a month, if the captives did not retreat, Yang Chao could only risk breaking through.

Song Lian didn't care about the things in the city, and didn't ask Yang Chao at all.

Yang Chao didn't bother to tell him in detail, and immediately rushed to the east wall.

It's a pity that before Yang Chao entered the city, he killed all the war horses and could only walk over.

There must be livestock in Haizhou City, but they are either hidden by the big families or killed directly, and they would rather kill and eat them than rob them from the government.

On the east wall, many men are in better condition, and he does not have the strong firepower of Li Wuliu's bird gunner on the south wall, but there are still tiger squat cannons, and a large number of Haizhou's original archers have been transferred, these are the ones who can draw bows in the guards, although the level is not as good as the captive soldiers, but the level of archers who have been trained for more than a year is not bad than Yang Chao, and even some are still very strong, which can be called archers, and this other elite soldiers are all Li Rui's family members without exception, and they are masters who have been practicing martial arts since childhood.

"Don't worry, my lord, our army has not suffered many casualties, only three people are seriously injured, and two people are only slightly injured!"

Many of the male casualties were much better than the southern wall.

Yang Chao also raised his head to observe, and found that the attack of the captives on the east wall was not high, the shield carts were shooting back and forth with the city wall, and although there were ten ladders, he had already given up attacking the city.

Yang Chao couldn't help but doubt in his heart.

Immediately understood: "It seems that the captives are feintting, and the main attack is really Nancheng." ”

Yang Chao immediately understood that the east wall was just a containment, and the captives wanted to open the situation from the south wall, and even Yang Chao suspected that the northwest side was also like this, and the captives had been helplessly filling up the Rose River, which might also be a kind of containment, with the aim of dispersing Haizhou's troops.

But Yang Chao didn't dare to bet, gambling that the captives were really feints on three sides, one side was the main attack, in case he transferred troops from other directions, who knew if the captives would turn to attack other directions, fighting this thing is an opportunistic behavior, and even if it was really a feint, it would become the main attack when it saw the opportunity.

Therefore, Yang Chao did not dare to leave any gaps, after all, the other party was the attacker, and he originally occupied the initiative.

Attack is a thorn, defense is a cloth, and as long as the thorn pierces a little, it will be successful. And the cloth must not have the slightest loophole, otherwise it will be caught.

In addition, the opponent is cavalry, which moves quickly. It's too easy to change the direction of the attack, and you'll have to be stupidly deployed on all sides. Don't look at the fact that the main direction of attack of the captives is the south wall, in case of a sudden reversal of direction and the start of transferring the main force to the east wall, if Yang Chao does not have strong troops on the east wall, he will not be able to hold on to support.

Thinking of this, Yang Chao advised: "Keep sticking." Beware of a sudden increase in the number of captives, and if the captives attack, you immediately use the letter flag! ”

Many men answered the call.

Although his subordinates were opposed, Yang Chao still followed the city wall. Walked back from the east wall to the south wall.

By this time, the southern wall had already begun to be watered with salt water.

After asking Li Wuliu, the effect was still very good, and he repelled three waves of attacks by the captives.

"Those cavalrymen have been watching the play in the back for too long. It's time for the Fur Machine to move! ”

Yang Chao saw that the captive infantry groups were concentrated under the city wall, while the cavalry was on the other side of the river in a dense formation, the distance was outside the range of the bird's gun, but they could rush under the city wall at any time.

Obviously, there was nothing to do with the cavalry in the siege, and the captives knew it very well, so these cavalry played only a supervisory role, and they had nothing to do, as if they were spectators.

Li Wuliu heard that he was allowed to open fire. Immediately shouted loudly to arrange the artillery emplacement, and began to bombard the cavalry on the opposite side.

"Dare to put on such a formation, it's really not a long memory!"

I saw that the formation of the captives was still so close. Li Wuliu couldn't help laughing.

"Li Wuliu, you remember, you can't defend the city to the death, and only by combining offense and defense can you maintain vitality. If we are attacked by the other party, this is not good for morale, so when we must fight back, we will fight back decisively! ”

Yang Chao said to Li Wuliu, let this subordinate remember his intention, that is, to fight back at the right time and boost morale.

Strictly guarded. Like stagnant water, it can't be prevented.

Without waiting for Yang Chao to walk back into the urn tower. The sound of artillery was already heard, the Fran cannon array. Erected on the inner side of the city wall, the captive's vision cannot be seen, and it is far away from the siege ladder here, there is no harassment of the captive shooters, you can aim with peace of mind, and then bombard the cavalry behind.

Moreover, there are positions on both sides, forming a crossfire, and the instant damage is still considerable.

Yang Chao saw dozens of shells coming over, killing at least fifty or sixty horses, and at least twenty or thirty people had to die.

It's a pity that the number of cavalry on the other side is too small, otherwise there will be more killed.

Not long after the cannon thought about it, suddenly cheers sounded on the city wall, and Yang Chao naturally knew what the reason was.

The captives retreated.

After paying more than 100 soldiers and nearly 200 coats, the captives who besieged the city slowly retreated, but unfortunately, these corpses were returned with shield carts, and it was impossible to become the military merit of the Ming army.

Seeing the captives calmly under the cover of the shield cart and slowly pushing through the passage where the sandbags were piled up, Yang Chao couldn't help but feel that it seemed that it was too easy for the captives to fill the river yesterday.

Obviously, it is more advantageous for him to shoot at the captives across the river, and if the fire was more fierce yesterday, he would not have lost more than 10 people today.

Thinking of this, Yang Chao suddenly had a plan.

Late at night.

More than a dozen people quietly fell down the city wall and rushed to the river at a very fast speed.

It was not until the position of the sandbags filled by the river that the captives stopped and began to move these sandbags, but unfortunately they were moving very slowly, these sandbags were already solid after a day of trampling, and the sandbags on the lower level were even half sunk in the mud, and it was impossible to move them at all.

And these people had no chance to move the sandbags on the lower floor, because they had just moved a few sandbags, and suddenly there was a shouting sound from the other side, followed by a dense rain of arrows, although there was no accuracy in the darkness, but three people were still shot and wounded, and the others immediately scattered and fled back to the city, jumped into the gondola and were pulled up to the city.

Yang Chao's attempt to remove the sandbags and reconstruct the confrontation situation across the river with the captives failed, but fortunately the three dead soldiers came back alive, and the three injured were not serious.

Yang Chao could only laugh at himself, and he could count himself as an attack, which made the captives increase their memory. (To be continued m.) (To be continued).